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Thursday, 19 May 2016

Watercolor Background

Hi everyone!Branka here and today is my turn to bring you an Inspirational post. I've decided to show you how to create a watercolor background without actually using watercolors.
If you want to achieve an artistic look of your background in an easy way than this technique is for you.
You can use it on your cards, art journal pages, ATCs, tags or anything you like.

Let's get started!

For this technique you would need:
- a piece of watercolor paper or a heavy cardstock (both will work)
- a spray bottle filled with water
- watersoluble markers (Tombow Dual Tip, Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens, Distress markers, Crayola Washable markers or any watersoluble type of markers you have).
- a blending palette or an acetate package (I am using a package)
- paper towel or a rag

First, you'll need to cut the paper but make sure your paper is not bigger than your blending palette or your acetate package.

Next, choose your colors.
Tip: Make sure to choose colors that blend well and won't turned muddy when mixed. If you want to use complementary colors, don't put them directly next to each other on your blending palette.

If you are using Tombow Dual Tip markers, you need to use the brush side of the marker.

Tip: If you want to cover the whole paper with colors than apply your colors on area about the size of the paper that you are using. I wanted to have some blank areas on my papers so I applied my colors randomly on my palette.

Spray the palette or an acetate package with a spray bottle filled with water.

Tip: Each portion of color should have beads of water on it.

Take your paper and place it on top of the wet color. Keeping the paper in the same place, use your hand to smooth the paper to spread the water.

Next, lift the paper off the palette and place it on a surface to let it dry.

Here is the result:

You can use your Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens to achive a watercolor background.